Adobe Lightroom is a very powerful editing tool for your landscape photos. It is also an easy way to ruin your photos during the editing process if you don’t understand the sliders. This video talks through five sliders in Adobe Lightroom that will destroy your images.
Adobe Lightroom can be an excellent photo editing tool, and it gets more powerful with every release. With that capability to make your photos better through editing, it also comes with the potential to ruin your images. In this video, Mark Denney walks through five sets of sliders that, if used without restraint, do more harm than good to your images.
Denney looks at commonly used sliders in Adobe Lightroom and walks through what the image looks like when the sliders are moved too much, and then what a more subtle edit looks like. Denney looks at several groupings of sliders, including the Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze sliders; the Whites slider versus Exposure; and the nuances of Vibrance and Saturation. Denney also spends time explaining what each slider does and when each should be used.
Even as a heavy user of Adobe Lightroom for my photo editing, I found the information Denney provided helpful. While I know to always be careful with how big of an adjustment I make, many parts of the video reinforced my knowledge. I also liked how he used the histogram as a way to demonstrate how big of an effect the Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze sliders can have on an image.
